AUGUST - Integration & Connection

Illustrated by Miki Howenstein

Here are another two concepts which go hand in hand. Within the individual, the quest for integrity means striving for a harmonious fitting together of the different aspects of the self—mind, spirit and body. In your integration with the life community, you find ways of promoting your own growth at the same time as positively cultivating your natural and human communities. To do so means that you must make an effort to cohnnect with all of the aspects of the self in order to become whole. In becoming whole and matching your beliefs with your actions, you become fully alive and can proceed to develop and live out visions for the good of life. You seek to find those things that you believe are good and build on them.,…. (From page 246 of the book “Jumbo Jumble”)

Author’s Comment: Herein lies two of the greatest challenges in today’s world. While being more and more digitally connected, our face-to-face connections have increasingly withered, and the COVID-19 situation has only worsened it. At the same time, our “encouraged isolation” may provide us mental space to work on integrating the various aspects of self and prod us to search out ways of more holistically harmonizing society when we can again socially freely. That is, find ways of breaking down the barriers that separate rich and poor, black and white, human society and the rest of nature, etc. In the crises of today lie the hopes for a new, more enlightened way of life tomorrow.